The last couple weeks have seemed a little on the rough side.  It felt like I had plateaued, as though things had leveled off, forcing me to become even more extreme in the measures I’m taking to lose weight.  The hope was that such a time would never come, that the weight would continue to [...]

Hey there.  Just putting up a note to let you know that I’m still alive, that I still consider this my online home, and that I’ll be posting here, at least sporadically, for as long as I possibly can.  For the few of you who read this (that’s right:  you, you, and um… you, back [...]

Right… tell me there’s a Ray Bradbury fan out there who’s looked at the number on the image to the left and gets the joke.  Tell me the title isn’t causing massive coronaries on the part of my book-reading friends.  Tell me you’ve ready Fahrenheit 451.
Yes?  No?  If you have, isn’t it good to be [...]

It’s been five  months since I started this whole get better thing began.  If you’ve been reading since May, you know that since starting to actively try and lose weight, to make myself a healthier me, I’ve had my ups and downs, weeks where I’ve dropped a few pounds, and even a couple where I’ve [...]

Remember those Schoolhouse Rocks! cartoons, the ones they showed back in the 70s and into the early 80s?  The one that stuck with me dealt with the number three, multiples of three, and how the number seems to pop up a lot in life.  This week, “three” has personal significance because it’s the number of [...]

If indeed there is such a thing as a regular reader of bigsimon.com, said reader is probably wondering where yesterday’s weigh-in post went.  The calendar hailed the arrival of Saturday some eleven hours ago, while I was laying in the dark, staring at the place where there should be a ceiling, and I realized with [...]

Nine pounds!  I’m not going to say I was surprised when the scale read such a huge loss, mostly because I’ve said it far too many times already, and don’t want to sound like a schmuck.  Still, I’m more than happy that chunk of weight is behind me, rather than on my behind.  That’s 144 [...]

There will be no weight loss post this week.  That’s because there was no weight loss.  Now, don’t get me wrong, there was no weight gain, and that, my dear readers, is just fine with me.  I don’t have anything particularly enlightened to say this week on the subject, so I’ll just leave you with [...]

What’s this?  A mid-week post?  It is!  It is indeed!
I’m afraid I’ve left the tremendous number of readers I have here (all three of you) a little in the lurch by not posting anything but Friday weigh-in blogs.  Well, this is not a weigh-in post, and it’s not Friday, so rejoice!  After all, I’m only [...]

I spent the entire seven days of this last week thinking I was going to gain weight.  No, I wasn’t being negative, I was just watching the cycle of how my weight loss has been so far, and I thought I had it figured out.  Apparently I was wrong.  I figured I’d go in to [...]